Who Is Kaitlin Lovern?

Kaitlin Lovern is the founder and lead REALTOR® of the Kaitlin Lovern Real Estate Team, licensed with Real Brokerage LLC and based at 5 Cowboys Way in Frisco, Texas. She has represented more than 400 North Dallas families and closed $255M+ in career sales volume, and D Magazine has named her one of Dallas’s Best Realtors® for eight consecutive years. She has held her Texas real estate license since 2012, when she was named Rookie of the Year in her first year in the business.

“Greatness is demonstrated, not declared.”

That line is how she describes her own approach to the job, and it shapes how the team operates day to day. She calls herself a protector by nature, and frames the work as protecting a client’s bottom line and getting them to the finish line, whether that finish line is a signed listing agreement, a winning offer, or a closing table. The team is not built around volume for its own sake. It is built to stay small enough that a file does not move from one desk to another without Kaitlin knowing about it, while still being equipped enough that more than one licensed professional is reviewing every transaction.

North Dallas real estate is not one market. Kaitlin’s own read is that “north of 635 is a different world,” meaning Frisco, Prosper, Celina, McKinney, and Plano behave differently from Dallas proper and from each other, with their own builder incentives, school-zoning pressure, and property-tax structures. That hyperlocal read, built from working these specific suburbs since 2012, is the thing an out-of-town relocation team or a national portal cannot replicate.

Licensing and Credentials

Kaitlin’s real estate license is issued and searchable through the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC, 2026), the state agency that licenses and regulates every real estate agent and broker in Texas. As a member of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR, 2026), she and her team operate under NAR’s Code of Ethics, which governs how REALTORS® must represent clients, disclose material facts, and handle offers.

Beyond state licensing, her production has been independently verified by RealTrends, a third-party real estate ranking service, and recognized locally by D Magazine, a regional publication that has named her a Best Realtor® for eight consecutive years based on closed transaction volume.

None of this is a claim about being the only option in Frisco. It is a record that can be checked: a license number on file with TREC, a ranking published by a third party, and an award history tied to a named publication, not just marketing copy. If you want to verify any of it yourself before working with us, TREC’s public license search and RealTrends’ published rankings are both open records, and we would rather you check them than take our word for it.

The Kaitlin Lovern Team

The team is intentionally small. Kaitlin’s own description of the model is that it should be “small enough that a file does not move from my desk, but equipped enough” that more than one person elevates the service, which is different from both a solo agent working alone and a mega-team where clients rarely speak with the same person twice.

Kaitlin Lovern, Founder & Lead Realtor

Founder of the team, licensed since 2012, and the primary point of contact for luxury listings, relocation clients, and complex or sensitive sales.

Renee Runyon, Realtor

A lifelong Dallas-Fort Worth resident who earned a business degree from the University of Texas at Dallas and began her real estate career in 2002. Renee’s focus is market analysis, contract detail, and transaction coordination.

Emily Drummond, Realtor

Licensed since 2012, Emily specializes in residential real estate across Frisco, Prosper, McKinney, and Plano, and is known on the team for open-house conversion and client follow-through.

Kim, Transaction Coordinator

Melissa, Marketing & Social Media

Where We Work

The team works primarily in Frisco, Prosper, Celina, McKinney, Plano, Allen, Little Elm, and Flower Mound, all part of the North Dallas suburbs sitting mostly in Collin County (Collin County, 2026), with some service areas crossing into Denton County. Frisco itself has grown into one of the fastest-growing cities in the country over the past decade (City of Frisco, 2026), which is part of why buyers relocating from out of state are so often surprised by how competitive its schools and new-construction pipeline both are (Frisco ISD, 2026).

Team production has grown alongside that market. Six years of annual closed volume for the team looks like this:

That growth is a byproduct of referrals and repeat clients, not paid lead generation. Kaitlin’s own description of the business is direct: “we don’t buy leads.” The team’s pipeline comes from past clients and local relationships built since Kaitlin’s license went active in 2012, fourteen years working these same suburbs.

How We Work With Buyers and Sellers

The team works across five main client tracks, and treats each one differently rather than running one generic script for every client. Which track applies usually decides who on the team takes the lead: Kaitlin for luxury and relocation, Emily for first-time buyers and open-house-heavy searches, and Renee for anything that hinges on contract detail or a tight closing timeline.

Luxury ($850K and up)

Kaitlin’s framing here is that “luxury is a level of service, not a price point,” and that every listing gets treated as, in her words, “a piece of art in our portfolio,” meaning professional staging, photography, and a marketing plan built around the story of the property, not just a sign in the yard.

Relocation

Historically heavy from California, and more recently from Canada and the East Coast. Relocating buyers are routinely surprised by how Texas structures property taxes and by local lot sizes, and the team spends real time modeling realistic commutes given Dallas-area traffic before a client makes an offer.

First-time buyers

Most first-time buyers are afraid of making a costly mistake. The team leans on vetted vendor partners, including a long-tenured inspector, and tries to educate at the specific moments in a transaction where a mistake is actually possible, rather than front-loading information a buyer will forget.

Move-up sellers

Selling and buying at the same time is, in Kaitlin’s words, “our bread and butter.” The logistics of timing two closings, not the marketing, is usually the client’s real fear, and it is where the team spends the most coordination effort. If that is your situation, request a valuation at kaitlinlovern.com/sell/ and start your next search at kaitlinlovern.com/buy/ at the same time.

Downsizing and specialty situations

Empty-nester and downsizing clients are typically closing an emotional chapter, not just a transaction, and the team treats the decluttering and timeline planning accordingly. Divorce and probate sales are handled quietly, with Kaitlin acting as, in her words, “a level-headed, non-emotional party,” and are not used as headline marketing material.

On the lending side, the team also works with a local co-branded lender partner who can underwrite more complex files, since, as Kaitlin puts it, “not all round pegs fit in round holes,” particularly for luxury clients with complicated tax returns. That matters more in North Dallas than buyers coming from other states expect, since a growing share of our clients are self-employed or carry multiple income streams that a standard automated underwriting file does not represent well, and a lender who can actually read a complicated return, not just run it through software, is often the difference between a competitive offer and a rejected one.

None of this replaces working with an attorney, accountant, or your own lender. What we bring is the referral itself: a named local probate attorney who sends us estate sales, a co-branded lender partner who underwrites complex files, and a 20-plus-year inspector we use on first-time-buyer transactions, all three vetted relationships built over our fourteen years working these suburbs, not a generic list.